77 min: Penn fizzes a shot at Howard's goal but it's slapped straight into the meaty palms of the American.

9.19pm GMT

74 min: Fellaini bashes into Pack. In a game that now has fallen into a gentle, slightly lumbering torpor – very much like a sleeping cow actually – that jarred like a splinter.

9.14pm GMT

72 min: McGlashan again scurries down the right and his cross eventually finds its way to the substitute Jake Taylor, who volleys a good five yards over the bar.

9.13pm GMT

70 min: Anichebe trundles through midfield bu loses out to Jombati. He swings in a cross … that Howard catches unchallenged. The Everton keeper has had too much catching practice tonight.

9.10pm GMT

68 min: Jones's free-kick drops deep to McGlashan but the winger skews his shot high and wide.

9.09pm GMT

66 min: Cheltenham replace Goulding with Duffy and Carter with Taylor. They needed a change – the fourth goal does seem to have dampened spirits at Whaddon Road.

9.08pm GMT

65 min: One for the history boys, via Twitter guru OptaJoe: "Cheltenham have conceded 4+ goals in an FA Cup game at home (excl. qualifiers) for the first time since Nov 1968 (0-4 v Watford)."

9.07pm GMT

63 min: Gueye replaces Baines, which means a bit of a rejig. I think Oviedo's slotted in at left-back with Gueye ahead of him wide on the left.

9.06pm GMT

62 min: McGlashan gets the chance to hurtle upfield once more – he even throws in a couple of stepovers. But Everton get numbers back and smother the danger.

9.03pm GMT

59 min: I think it's safe to say he's back.

9.01pm GMT

GOAL! Cheltenham 1-4 Everton (Coleman 58)

This is lovely. A cheeky little gem of a goal. Anichebe zips a pass into the charging full-back, who takes a touch and then gently pokes the ball over Brown as the ball sits up and the keeper rushes out.

55 min: Oviedo gets round the back and looks to drill in a cross. Blocked. Corner …

8.57pm GMT

54 min: Everton are on the ropes all of a sudden. McGlashan fizzes in a cross, but Distin just gets there ahead of Goulding and an Everton defender is first on the scene to hammer away the loose ball.

8.56pm GMT

53 min: Another trip down memory lane, courtesy of Allan Scanlon. "Don't remember that Abergavenny game, but nights like tonight were what we dreamed about all those years of failing to get past the qualifying rounds starting in August. Ton Pentre, Merthr Tydfil, Yate, Bideford, Radstock ... great memories. Hasn't gone for us tonight, but we're not doing too badly, and if Everton werre awarded that penalty, then you have to ask why McGlashan wasn't awarded one for Distin locking his arm before being penalised for an arm in Howard's face."

Updated at 8.56pm GMT

8.55pm GMT

52 min: It looked for a minute there that Buzz Killington was going to make another appearance but that goal keeps a bit of buzz very nicely.

8.54pm GMT

GOAL! Cheltenham 1-3 Everton (Penn 51)

What a fantastic response from the League Two side. Mohamed slips the ball through to the onrushing Russell Penn and he neatly beats Howard at the near post.

8.53pm GMT

GOAL! Cheltenham 0-3 Everton (Osman 49)

Jombati is guilty of snoozing as Anichebe finds Baines on the left. The rest of the Cheltenham back four appeal for offside and Baines should've been, but Jombati is sitting too deep. The left-back picks out Osman, who waltzes past a tackle and smashes the ball past Brown.

8.51pm GMT

48 min: Anichebe gets a yard or two of space 30-odd yards from goal. He shapes to shoot … you already know this didn't end up in the top corner didn't you?

8.50pm GMT

47 min: Cheltenham send a long free-kick into the Everton box but the visitors, as they have done all night, clear with some ease.

8.49pm GMT

46 min: I'm sorry Philip Woolf but TOMMY NUTMEG? My mind is blown.

8.48pm GMT

PEEP! Off we go again, then. It's a long way back from here for Cheltenham, but they stuck to their task well after that second goal.

8.46pm GMT

The results are in:

This is like the Ballon d'Or all over again. Only with less Blatter. And more singing. The correct answer is, of course, MEGS.

POLL RESULTS: NUTS 40% MEGS 60%

Armed with the results of this survey I will make sure I tell the bloke who shouts NUTS at my five-a-side that he is at least two-fifths wrong. And, we should also make clear, anyone who shouts MEGSY – I'm looking at you Dan Shepherd – is clearly a dangerously unstable heretic.

Updated at 8.47pm GMT

8.42pm GMT

Half-time memory lane dept.

"Well, now living Stateside I can only catch The Robins 'live' whenever we come home, but assuming this game is now looking a bit dodgy, I fondly look back on Cheltenham Town v Abergavenny, FA Cup 2nd (I think) Qualifying Round replay from 1969," writes Ian Roberts. "It was a cool Autumn evening and the terraces stank of cigarette smoke as we grasped our plastic cups filled with steaming hot Horlicks. Great memories indeed. Oh, we won that game 3-2." What a lovely email. A few more like that please.

8.34pm GMT

PEEP! PEEP! And that's the break. Quick point of order: just before the whistle Baines nutmegged his marker. When this happens and you're on the pitch do you shout MEGS or NUTS? There's no right or wrong answer* – it's just a quick straw poll.

*PLEASE NOTE: There is a right or wrong answer.

8.31pm GMT

45 min: Can Cheltenham get back into this before the break? Not like that they can't – Pack launches a big booming long throw into the box … which Howard catches comfortably.

8.29pm GMT

43 min: McGlashan, the home side's best outlet thus far, clatters Baines in the Cheltenham right-back position and is a little lucky to escape a booking. The free-kick comes to diddly squat.

8.28pm GMT

42 min: This game is drifting gently and inoffensively towards half-time now. Like a Lighthouse Family album track.

8.26pm GMT

40 min: Everton have taken their foot off the gas here. Fellaini glances a header well wide.

8.24pm GMT

38 min: "Two-nil and you still don't sing!" chant a few home fans towards the away end. Would carry more weight if more than 20-odd Cheltenham fans were letting their voices be heard.

8.23pm GMT

37 min: … beautifully swerved in by Jones again, but then booted out of the ground – literally* – by Distin.

*Not all that impressive really. There's only a dozen rows of terrace on that portion of the ground.

8.22pm GMT

35 min: McGlashan ends up as the meat in a Baines and Fellaini sandwich. A free-kick is the result. Dangerous one this …

8.19pm GMT

34 min: … Elliott gets on the end of this one but can only loop the ball up into the air. Howard is under a bit of pressure, but Jombati has an arm on the goalkeeper. Free-kick.

8.19pm GMT

33 min: … Jones swings the ball in. Nodded clear by Jelavic and out for another …

8.18pm GMT

32 min: Marlon Pack gets Goulding away down the right channel then receives the ball back. Fellaini gets back to deflect the shot over. Corner …

8.17pm GMT

31 min: Fellaini extends like Optimus Prime on the edge of the box to slap a shot at goal, but his effort crashes into the hoardings a yard or two wide.

8.16pm GMT

29 min: Optimism/pessimism here. "I can't say I am massively impressed with the penalty decision, it was soft," writes Duncan Smith. "And from an Evertonian perspective, I would much rather have had one of the many less soft ones in the league! Also the Robins have played fairly well at times, they've made some half chances, it's not totally dead I don't think."

8.15pm GMT

28 min: Stuart Pearce is at Whaddon Road, wearing a grey scarf with orange trim. That is all.

8.13pm GMT

26 min: Jombati surges through midfield with the ball and he finds Carter in the area. His volley loops off towards Tewkesbury.

8.10pm GMT

24 min: Mark Yates is clearly not happy at that penalty decision. I can't quite make my mind up about it. Fellaini stood there and allowed Bennett to topple over him. Or did Bennett push forward on to the Everton man? Ach, these things even themselves out, etc and so forth, but it's a galling way for Cheltenham to go two down.

8.08pm GMT

22 min: Buzz Killington has definitely arrived.

8.07pm GMT

GOAL! Cheltenham 0-2 Everton (Baines 21)

Brown goes the right way but Baines arrows his shot past the keeper. This is all over isn't it?

8.06pm GMT

20 min: PENALTY! Bennett climbs over a standing Fellaini in an attempt to win a header and the referee points to the spot. One of those ones you occasionally seen given near halfway, but very rarely in the box.

8.05pm GMT

19 min: Superb save! Baines gets to line up a free-kick, 30-odd yards from goal and sends a vicious dipping effort towards Scott Brown's top corner. The Cheltenham keeper reacts wonderfully to claw the ball away.

Updated at 8.07pm GMT

8.03pm GMT

18 min: Carter again gets space on the edge of the box, but this time his shot is comfortably saved by Howard.

8.03pm GMT

17 min: … a zipping, flat delivery is well dealt with by the Everton and backline and Carter fails to make contact on the edge of the box.

8.02pm GMT

16 min: McGlashan does brilliantly to keep Jones's deep cross in and wins a free-kick off Baines. Free-kick, five yards from the corner flag …

8.01pm GMT

15 min: This really should be 2-0. Fellaini nods down a high ball from the back, Jelavic is again first onto it, but this time he drags a volley wide of goal.

13 min: That might prove to be a bigger buzz kill than Buzz Killington.

7.58pm GMT

GOAL! Cheltenham 0-1 Everton (Jelavic 12)

Oviedo exchanges neat passes with Fellaini on the left and the Belgian swings in a superb effort at goal that beats Brown but clatters back off the post. Jelavic is quickest to react to the rebound and prods the ball home.

7.57pm GMT

11 min: Jelavic nods down, Oviedo shoots from the edge of the box, but it's weaker than orange squash made with a thimble of cordial and a litre of water.

7.56pm GMT

10 min: Oviedo picks the pocket of Bennett but can't make the best of a promising position.

7.55pm GMT

8 min: Seamus Coleman goes long from the right-back position, but Cheltenham nod clear. The home side have settled a touch now.

7.52pm GMT

6 min: Cheltenham work the ball down the left with Mohamed to the fore. My memories of him from Wembley last season was that he was a livewire, a real threat, but that is final ball tended to be poor. He finds Carter with a yard of space but the former Birmingham man prods wide.

7.51pm GMT

5 min: Oviedo lays the ball of to Fellaini but the big Belgium drags his shot a couple of yards wide.

7.50pm GMT

4 min: Another long punt bounces through to Howard. Looks like Town want to get it forward quickly tonight, which is perfectly understandable.

7.48pm GMT

3 min: McGlashan charges down Distin's clearance … with his elbow. He looks peeved, but he's bang to rights.

7.48pm GMT

2 min: A long punt from Brown bounces all the way through to Howard.

7.47pm GMT

1 min: Poor old Cheltenham. Every time they get any media attention it's all "novices, throughbreads, stayers" and so on and so forth. ESPN not choosing any off-piste route tonight.

7.45pm GMT

PEEP! Off we go then. Everton in blue, Cheltenham in their deep red and white stripes.

7.41pm GMT

Click-clack, click-clack … the teams emerge from the cramped tunnel at Whaddon Road.

7.39pm GMT

Our man at Whaddon Road is chief football writer Daniel Taylor, who'll be watching a game of one half …

For any Cheltenham fans reading I feel I must apologise. The curse of the Guardian Football League blog struck after this piece on the Robins and they ended up missing out in the League Two play-off final to a Nick Powell-inspired Crewe. That piece does have a lovely stat in it though: bBetween 1992-93 and 1998-99 Cheltenham finished (deep breath) 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 2nd, 2nd and 1st in various leagues. Imagine being a kid and going to your first game at Whaddon Road in 1992! What has come since will have been something of a let down I suppose.

No doubt David Moyes is taking this seriously (is it me or has there been an increase in managers-taking-the-Cup-seriously this year?) Of the team that started against Newcastle John Heitinga, Steven Piennar and Steven Naismith are out, with Seamus Coleman, Bryan Oviedo and Victor Anichebe coming in.

Updated at 7.34pm GMT

7.11pm GMT

Evening all. Are you well? Good, good. Me? Can't complain I suppose. But the big question is can Cheltenham spring another FA Cup shock? The weekend wasn't great for them. This was the story of their Sunday:

On the eve of the biggest match in their history, Cheltenham Town's training ground has been burgled.

Thieves struck on Sunday morning at the club's training ground in the Swindon Village area of Cheltenham, stealing wallets, watches and mobile phones worth thousands of pounds. On Monday night, the League Two club take on Everton in the FA Cup third-round.

The Cheltenham striker Darryl Duffy took to Twitter to vent his frustration at the theft of his mobile phone and said he would buy it back given the chance. He wrote: "It was stolen from me, it's white and has all my pics/videos of my kids in it so it means a lot to me. Cannot stand thieves."

Between 10.45am and midday on Sunday, thieves entered the training rooms at the site. Keys to two vehicles parked outside were also taken and the cars entered. Wallets were taken from inside.

The thefts were reported to Gloucestershire Police at 12.30pm and at around 4pm officers arrested two 17-year-old boys on suspicion of theft. They have been bailed to return to Cheltenham police station on 13 February.